NEW YORK — On Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden, DePaul men’s basketball coach Dave Leitao sat in the press conference room after DePaul was knocked out in the first round of the Big East tournament. Answering in the same calm and measured way he does for most press conferences, he responded to the inevitable questions about the direction of the program.
“I feel really, really good about the direction of where we’re going and what we’re doing,” he said. “And I’m going to try to make some significant strides forward between this spring and next fall to put us in a much better position.